John O'Farrell is an author and contributes to the Guardian on subjects including politics, the theatre and Northern Ireland. His latest book is Things Can Only Get Worse? Twenty confusing years in the life of a Labour supporter

John O'Farrell: On Wednesday, senior judges heard an appeal that police behaved illegally when they stopped three coachloads of protesters travelling to a US military base to protest against the Iraq war. Here are the witness statements of those involved.

John O'Farrell: No one in the cricketing establishment ever imagined that things could possibly reach this stage, but recent events have shocked the world of sport. England have finally got a decent cricket team.

John O'Farrell: Below is an exchange of letters and memos between Prince Charles and a private secretary which have come into the Guardian's possession after they were flogged to us by a dodgy-looking bloke in the pub ...

John O'Farrell: Until just 12,000 years ago, there was a species of little people walking around. Finally they were wiped out, possibly following encounters with the much larger Homo sapiens who, it's feared, may have patronised them to death.